The Maritime Safety Committee,
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Maritime Safety Committee - Resolution MSC.244(83) - Adoption of Performance Standard for Protective Coatings for Void Spaces on Bulk Carriers and Oil Tankers - (Adopted on 5 October 2007) - The Maritime Safety Committee,

The Maritime Safety Committee,

 RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,

 HAVING ADOPTED, by resolution MSC.215(82), the Performance standard for protective coatings for dedicated seawater ballast tanks in all types of ships and double-side skin spaces of bulk carriers and, by resolution MSC.216(82), amended SOLAS regulation II-1/3-2 to make the performance standard mandatory;

 RECOGNIZING the need to also develop a performance standard for protective coatings for void spaces on bulk carriers and oil tankers,

 HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-third session, the proposed Performance standard for protective coatings for void spaces on bulk carriers and oil tankers,

  1 1. ADOPTS the Performance standard for protective coatings for void spaces on bulk carriers and oil tankers, the text of which is set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

  2 INVITES Member Governments to utilize the Performance standard when applying protective coatings to void spaces on bulk carriers and oil tankers.


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